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Though the general strike petered out in four days, the strike of the longshoremen and marine workers which had started all the trouble did not. Employers agreed to arbitrate all grievances with longshoremen and marine strikers. The National Longshoremen's Board headed by Archbishop Hanna proposed that the striking longshoremen, not only of San Francisco but of the whole Pacific Coast, vote by secret ballot on whether to accept arbitration. Harry Bridges, radical Australian strike leader, opposed the vote but he was overruled and the strikers went to the polls to decide the issue...
Thus embittered strikers and embittered employers both determined to fight to a finish. Powerless were Archbishop Hanna and his board appointed by the President. They could "find facts," offer to arbitrate but force no sort of peace. NRA likewise had no power. Said General Johnson in Portland: "The seat of the trouble out here is the fact that, due to cross currents, the shipping industry has no code...
Reason for the sudden peace was that Harry Bridges, Australian chairman of the strike committee, had told his followers that they could not fight machine-guns and bayonets. The President's strike board, Archbishop Hanna, Lawyer Cushing and Assistant Secretary of Labor Mcgrady sat powerless. Nominally the only issue between the employers and longshoremen was which of them should control the "hiring halls" where stevedores are given jobs. But some 15,000 other shipping workers ? stewards, sailors, cooks, pilots?had struck in sympathy. When joint control of the hiring halls had been proposed the longshoremen rejected it because...
...McGrady, Secretary of Labor Perkins' assistant and a strong union man whom she had already sent to San Francisco. Another was 0. K. ("Okay") Cushing, San Francisco attorney with liberal labor views. The third, who gave the board its most distinctive flavor, was the Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna, 73-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco and advocate of most liberal labor proposals...
...Archbishop Hanna and the board went octogenarian Andrew Furuseth who has lived on San Francisco's Embarcadero for more than 40 years, organized seamen, fought their battles and now heads the International Seamen's Union of America. He pleaded with strikers: "With confidence and justice we can settle this strike within 24 hours and without bloodshed. Men, let's get together while there is still time. The only thing in the way of peace now is distrust, one group of the other...